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Ode to a Motorsickle…

Well, long promised and never seen the light of day before, here are the pictures Pud took of the GTP when he first got it back in 1968. Not in a sorry state, but 30 years old already and ‘well used’, and not exactly with a very high mileage, about 10.000. Not bad for £16! About the same time in England (actually 1972), I bought my first bike for a ‘tenner’, a much later Tiger Cub, with a blown gearbox. A few weeks later I bought a complete rear wheel with good tyre and sprocket and a complete set of gearbox internals for another £3… after placing an ad in the window of the local newsagents…

Please be patient, these pictures are large and many. Feel free to copy and use as ‘desktop’ background pictures!

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Enjoy the pictures!! Only one comment: The older man in the photos sitting on the bike is the original dealer who imported and sold the bike!

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The man in the last three pictures above is L.A Borgelt, the dealer who originally sold the bike over 30 years before these pictures were taken!

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These photos that follow are before and after shots of a rather nice magneto-ignition GTP from Victoria! You might also spot a couple interspersed with the black-and-white photos above!

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© peter gouws 2013

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